Gender equality is such a hot topic for the modern liberatarians that sometimes the hyprocracy of it hits you. Impassioned about the cause not because it is hip to uphold, but because, it is insane to not believe in it, particularly as an Indian, since Indians celebrate and even worship female power.
The western world obviously believes that its record is significantly better than the eastern one on this parameter, but I guess, nothing would be farther from the truth than this.
The very fact that we notice and highlight such behavioral patterns is an indirect admission of guilt and cause for triggering a defense mechanism.
Interestingly, in one of the recent Times Magazine edition, a female doctor criticizes the world for celebrating Madam Curie more as the “first female” scientist to win the Nobel, far more than for her work in radio-activity that led cures for cancer.
Ironically, the same article that exhorts us to cast away such gender bias extols her for being the excellent mother and wife that she was, as though that added to her scientific temper and achievements. While the writer had perhaps set out to challenge a cliched stereotype, she actually contributed in reinforcing it by such superfluous qualification. Never would the scientific genius of Mr Curie - husband - be contingent upon or be reinforced by the good father or husband that he would be.
The foot note that identified the author was even more ironic as that said “first female” African American doctor to receive a medical patent. Some habits die hard, and those embedded in the DNA never die.
